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It seems that the conditions were far from perfect: 13-14°C, drizzle and swirling wind. Renaud Lavillenie was for instance jumping from a shorter approach (16 steps) with a relatively small pole (5.00/15.0).

Today at the Gala Filothei Women, Katerina Stefanidis jumped 4.86, she wasn't kidding when she said her aim for 2016 was to jump 5 meters!
Video of the jump: https://youtu.be/ERZbonnW9hs
Slow-motion of the same jump: https://youtu.be/zEBABjl-Ph0

Last Saturday Lisa Gunnarsson (still 16 years old) jumped a new world youth best of 4.50 at Pezenas (France). She betters her WYB of 4.49 achieved last winter indoors.

video: https://youtu.be/GIa30Agx-Wg
good 4.55 attempt: https://youtu.be/nNMmML9PQ4E

With Lavillenie, local star Kudlicka and the greak youth prodigy.
Right now: http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1015 ... gala-2016/

Great competition, with a lot of great depth of performances in addition to the 6.02 WL! Here is a video of all jumps from Renaud Lavillenie in the competition: https://youtu.be/FAgrz_9Yd-c HD-HFR video of the 6.02 jump, perfect for slow-motion and technique analysis: https://youtu.be/L0AF5JnUynw I ...

She did it again, 4.49 in Stockholm yesterday! Now it's an indoor&outdoor WYB.
http://twitter.com/iTweetSports473/stat ... 7230710785

16 years old Swedish Lisa Gunnarsson equalled Bengtsson's youth world best in Eaubonne (in suburbs of Paris) with 4.47, also a new indoor world best (previously 4.46 by Zhang Yingning) footage of 4.37, 4.47 easy clearances and 4.53 attempts : https://youtu.be/qhE1TmGEVPo In interview she says her go...

Now this car salesman just becomes improper...
https://youtu.be/saE2yLjWH8s
I sincerely hope he does not actually have credential to coach kids.

Video of the PV competition: https://youtu.be/ni48AcTfSoU
Strong head wind, it appears...
My flawed german skills lead me to understand more or less that the anchorman confirms Kirk's value of 5.38 poles (17'7) for Shawn Barber.

Has that ever happened before? 2 vaulters over 6m in a competition? Good question, I've had a look at IAAF website and the answer it yes, three times actually! Sestriere 1995: Bubka and Brits both 600 (Bubka wins) Fukuoka 1997: Bubka 605 Tarasov 600 Athens 1999: Tarasov 605 Hartwig 600 (and Markov ...

A (long) video recap for the women competition starting at 480: https://youtu.be/m3qmLV3H7sk Very happy to see Silva and Murer peaking at the right moment, with heights around PB for each! It's sad for Jenn Suhr but I'm sure she'll be very competitive in Rio next year (remember London?) Regarding po...

that IAAF link to the pole vault cannot be viewed in the US... I did see Lavillinie's 5.80 clearance was huge, what happened at the next bar? Barber had 3 or 4 inches on 5.90. Here is a video recap: https://youtu.be/9Zd3l8r3XoI Vamos a la pertiga! I'll post the french feed as soon as I get it, to h...